Here is a powerful and amazing statement on Al Jazeera
television. It is the most powerfully articulate statement on the
senseless bloody conflict in the middle east I have heard. The woman
speaking (there are English subtitles) is Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American
psychologist from Los Angeles. The Muslim cleric who tries to debate
her is reduced to silence and confusion in the face of the truth of her
words. I would suggest watching it ASAP because I don’t know how long
the link will be active:

I don’t agree with everything she said. I think the Christians have quite a history of damaging mosques. I think the current American government has done a great deal of killing/destroying in the name of Christianity. I think Israelis have done a great deal of killing/destroying (arguably in self-defense or hit-’em-back-first strikes).

Still, for a woman, and bare-headed no less, to go say such a thing is remarkable.